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Missionaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS

Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:

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 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 51
Scope and Contents The collection consists of material (mainly from 1914 onwards) relating to the mission in general and to the work in Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia. It includes: 1. Minutes and reports produced in the mission offices in London and in the fields from 1914 onwards. 2. Correspondence with missionaries in the field, with regional and national councils, with other missions operating in the same areas, and with other evangelical agencies. 3. Publications and printed material including issues...
Dates: 1896-1991
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Rev. John Ross to his daughter Peggy Ross about Chinese religion, 1914

 Fonds — Box CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 79
Scope and Contents

This letter was pasted into a copy of The origin of the Chinese people, by John Ross, published 1916

Dates: 1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter of Sir William Muir to Mrs Lessel, 14 March 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0147
Scope and Contents

This is a manuscript letter on Government House, Allahabad letter-headed paper written and signed by Sir William Muir and dated 14 March 1870. Muir writes in his capacity as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces of British India. The addressee is probably Isabella Ramsay, second wife of missionary Thomas L. Lessel. The letter concerns arrangements for the Lessels' return to Great Britain in 1870.

Dates: 14 March 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Letter to Arthur Evans Moule from Thomas Jenner, China, 1911

 Fonds — Box CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 71
Dates: 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters of John M. Leggate (c.1904-1985)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 12
Scope and Contents The collection is a transcription of letters written by Leggate from Manchuria between 1946 and 1949. The letters are mainly to his wife in Scotland but some are to his children and possibly to others. The transcriptions do not include the names of the recipients of the letters and are extracts from the letters only, all personal references having been removed. Leggate describes re-establishing the missionary work in Manchuria, in particular his medical work and the medical college at...
Dates: 1946-1949
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters of Lawrence and Caroline Hogg

 Fonds
Identifier: GD7
Scope and Contents The collection consists of twenty-six microfiche copies of letters. The first three (1910-1920) are letters written by Lawrence Hogg in Scotland before he went to India and the last two (1921-1923) are letters of Caroline M. Dixon before she married. The remaining letters record the Hoggs' many encounters with missionaries and Indian Church leaders, Hogg's views on independence, the contacts the Hoggs had with relatives in India and Upper Egypt, and offer a portrait of Christian work in...
Dates: 1910-1964
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Letters to Dr Robert Laws, 1885-1953

 Series — Box CLX-A-25: Series Coll-490/24; Series Coll-490/25
Identifier: Coll-490/24/RL
Scope and Contents Letters to Dr Robert Laws with matters arising.1. Letter from David Scott, Blantyre, to Dr Laws. He asks Dr Law not to send copies of his translation. The Writer intends to 'feel hisown way into Manganja and cannot impose upon the community a mode of language with which he is not in full accord'. 21 January 1885. [David Clement Scott published his Cyclopaedic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language in 1892].2. Letter from David Scott, Blantyre, to Dr Laws. In order to...
Dates: 1885-1953
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 24

M14 Miller, Sarah Wilson Pairman, 1937

 File — Box SW 36
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/8/1/593
Scope and Contents

Dip. Social Study 1930. File contains correspondence only, relating to her missionary work in Africa.

Dates: 1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Student Records / Admission Files: Certificate and Diploma in Social Study

M15 Monkley, Margaret, 1938-1946

 File — Box SW 36
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/8/1/594
Scope and Contents

Dip. Social Study 1938. File contains correspondence only and includes accounts of her missionary work in the Labrador region of Canada with Dr Charles Curtis of the Grenfell Mission.

Dates: 1938-1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Student Records / Admission Files: Certificate and Diploma in Social Study

Manuscript of Walter Bruce Davis

 Collection
Identifier: MS DAV 3
Scope and Contents

Typed manuscript entitled 'Alexander Duff; Prince of Indian Missionaries'. 338 pages

Dates: 1975
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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